Correction: the 5-segment boosters used by SLS do not have a longer burn time than the Shuttle boosters, but burn more powerfully.

Additionally, Starlab has now shifted from an inflatable habitat to a rigid one.

47:55 Reminds me of that one line from Apollo 13:
"I'm sick and tired of the entire Western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!"

Skylab walked so the International Space Station could r̶u̶n̶ walk a little more briskly.

If I had nickel for everytime Pete Conrad got struck by lightning, I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.

I remember when the Skylab fell back to earth. I was about 7 or 8 years old, and my family would go out into the backyard and watch it fly over. When we heard about pieces that landed in Australia,  we went into our backyard where we had collected two junked top loading washing machines and a dryer. Took them all apart piled the parts into one of the frames of the washing machines put the tub it on a 12 foot mass with one of those 3 day candles,  and claimed that it was a part of Skylab as a neighborhood joke.

I'm sure the third crew had a few choice words for the second crew about that dummy they left in the station lol

I'm always pleased when a YT doco-maker understands that around an hour is "brief".

Between you and Homemade documentaries, we don't deserve this level of quality content on Youtube... but I am so glad we get it anyway

50:55 “this is how we fix problems in the russian SPACE STATION”

Beats the hell out of the power module

Neato. There aren't many documentaries about Skylab around, let alone a great, in-depth one.

I was an Astronomy buff in High School in the 70's.  I remember tracking Skylab with my telescope back then.

NASA should fund an Archer-style animated comedy series that takes place on Sky Lab.

That Owen Garriott mannequin at Johnson Space Center is super creepy, he looks like he's been hotboxing the food prep area, and is getting into some serious snackage.
John Young complaining about farting up a storm on 16 always makes me laugh.
Nice to see the Skylab 4 crew vindicated by the evidence, not speculation and accusations of "mutiny".
Also I'd love to see an MOL video, but the what-if of a Skylab boost mission is an even cooler prospect.

This channel is criminally under-subscribed. Great work, m8.

“We’ve got a hot mic” “how long have we had that?” long enough John, Long enough😂

1:17:15  the fine was paid years later by a callback radio station in the US as a wonderful joke ..

19:01 - most inspirational words in the history of spaceflight.




these should have been the first words from the lunar surface.

19:15
„Orion? Huston.“
„*oh shit they heard me fuck fuck fuck*“
„Yes, sir“
„Okay John. We have a hot mike.“
„How long have we had that?“


peak

I struck Gold by finding this channel some months ago...

Sleep?? NAAAH NEW DKIS VIDEO DROPPED